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Fred Hutch Cancer Center
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Shea Stevens
Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. A surge continues in the Potomac river near Washington, D.C. after a mid air collision between a passenger jet and an army helicopter at low altitude near Reagan National Airport. NPR's Jennifer Lutton reports.
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Jennifer Lutton
American Airlines says there were 60 passengers on its plane with four crew members and it collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter which had three crew members. They collided over the Potomac as the American Airlines passenger was approaching Reagan National Airport, having flown from Wichita, Kansas. There is a massive search and rescue effort happening right now and they are in difficult conditions. It is dark. The water is icy cold and temperatures, temperatures are expected to get below freezing. Reagan National Airport, meanwhile, has shut down. The ticketing desks are empty.
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Shea Stevens
NPR's Jennifer Ludden at Reagan National. Meanwhile, American Airlines CEO Robert Isom says that the carrier has set up a hotline for updates about the crash. Democratic senators of World Health Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. About his views on vaccines. As NPR's Allison Albry reports, lawmakers also want to hear more about Kennedy's call for some major changes to the nation's Future Food Policy.
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Allison Aubrey
RFK Jr. Has called for an overhaul of the nation's largest anti hunger program, known as snap, billions of dollars, to provide direct food assistance to millions of low income Americans. There's a lot of bipartisan support for snap, but also criticism that SNAP benefits can be used to buy things like sugary sodas, candy and chips. Kennedy has proposed restrictions on what can be purchased with SNAP benefits, but Ty Jones Cox of the center on Budget and Policy Priorities says this is up to Congress and USDA to make change.
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Saesha Pfeiffer
What makes the most sense and what.
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Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Give us the real benefit that we're.
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Saesha Pfeiffer
All looking for is to actually incentivize.
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Fred Hutch Cancer Center
People to purchase healthy foods.
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Allison Aubrey
She says the evidence supports preserving choice for people to buy what they want while at the same time encouraging healthier choices. Alison Aubrey, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
President Trump says he plans to use the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house deported migrants. More from npr.
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Saesha Pfeiffer
Saesha Pfeiffer, Trump said he would instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing a 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo. Guantanamo to hold what he called, quote, the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Guantanamo has for decades had a facility used to hold migrants intercepted at sea, usually Haitians and Cubans it's part of the US Naval base there, not part of the US Military prison that holds suspected foreign terrorists detained after the 911 attacks. Trump offered few other details, including how the facility would be staffed and funded and if any new construction would be required. It's unclear whether the existing migrant facility at Guantanamo currently has 30,000 beds available. Sacha Pfeiffer, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
You're listening to NPR. Facebook parent Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Trump after his social media accounts were suspended in wake of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Trump alleged that Facebook and owner Mark Zuckerberg engaged in impermissiber censorship. Zuckerberg was among the Silicon Valley executives who contributed large sums of money to Trump's second inaugural fund. A Meta official says most of the settlement money will be directed to Trump's presidential library. This week's Billboard charts are out and a posthumous album is making a splash. NPR's Stephen Thompson has this report.
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Stephen Thompson
While he was alive, Mac Miller released a string of top 10 albums, six in all, in the years following his death in 2018. Miller hasn't lost his impact on the Billboard charts. His first posthumous album, circles, hit the top five back in 2020 five years later, Miller's estate released a follow up album. It's a project the late rapper worked on more than a decade ago, but shelved for years. It's called Balloonerism.
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She don't know she slept through the field chair and missed it. It was yesterday.
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Stephen Thompson
So fans appetite for Mac Miller's music hasn't. Balloonerism enters this week's Billboard album chart at number three behind only Bad Bunny and SZA. Stephen Thompson, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
U.S. futures are higher in after hours trading on Wall street following slight losses during trading on Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrials lost 136 points. This is NPR News.
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Fred Hutch Cancer Center
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